Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear - Softcover

Tchen, John Kuo Wei Kuo Wei; Yeats, Dylan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781681236 ISBN 13: 9781781681237

Publisher: Verso Books, 2014

Synopsis

The “yellow peril” is one of the oldest and most pervasive racist ideas in Western culture—dating back to the birth of European colonialism during the Enlightenment. Yet while Fu Manchu looks almost quaint today, the prejudices that gave him life persist in modern culture. Yellow Peril! is the first comprehensive repository of anti-Asian images and writing, and it surveys the extent of this iniquitous form of paranoia. Written by two dedicated scholars and replete with paintings, photographs, and images drawn from pulp novels, posters, comics, theatrical productions, movies, propagandistic and pseudo-scholarly literature, and a varied world of pop culture ephemera, this is both a unique and fascinating archive and a modern analysis of this crucial historical formation.

About this title

About the Authors

Dylan Yeats is a doctoral candidate at New York University.

John Kuo-Wei Tchen is a professor at New York University, the author of New York Before Chinatown, and co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781681236
• ISBN 13: 9781781681237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400